RAMAZÁN. The lunar month, beginning about the middle of March and ending about the middle of April; it is the Easter of the Mohammedans, the birth of regeneration or the spring.
The Sufism of the Rubáiyát
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Awake! awake! Oh, slumbering souls,
Arise like him who rules the morn and leads forth the stars with song.
Oh, Master hail to Thee! strike Thou with Wisdom's shafts the enemies of man's progression,
Thou who art known as the Dispeller of Mortal Darkness and the Light of the Life to Come.
Lead us by that Sure Path to where the spiritual sun doth rise and where mortal darkness sets beyond the clouds of fear, anger, sorrow, indolence and crime,